Reworking Postcolonialism Globalization, Labour and Rights

by Malreddy, Pavan Kumar; Heidemann, Birte; Laursen, Ole Birk; Wilson, Janet

• ISBN13: 9781137435927
• ISBN10: 1137435925
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It focuses on the impact of global market forces on the formation of new subject positions among urban dwellers, exiles, and other disenfranchised communities. Bringing together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world, the essays collected here investigate the transformative effects of the global dissemination of capital and goods and the movements of people. They call for a revision of existing discourses on rights, entitlements and citizenship.

Author Biography

Pavan Kumar Malreddy is a Researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Birte Heidemann is a doctoral candidate at University of Potsdam; she has taught English Literature at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany.

Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on the contributors
Introduction
PART I: GLOBALIZATION, MODERNITIES AND OTHER HISTORIES
1. Once Were Internationalists? Postcolonialism, Disenchanted Solidarity and the Right to Belong in a World of Globalized Modernity; Frank Schulze-Engler
2. The Postcolonial Condition: A Few Notes on the Quality of Historical Time in the Global Present; Sandro Mezzadra & Federico Rahola
PART II: GLOBAL DISPLACEMENTS: EXILE, MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION
3. The Exigencies of Exile and Dialectics of Flight: Migrant Fictions, V.S. Naipaul, Kiran Desai; Malachi McIntosh
4. Urban Poverty and Homelessness in the International Postcolonial World; Melissa Kennedy
5. The 'Shattered Racialised Person' and (Post)multiculturalism in Australia; Lyn Dickens
6. Sliced Tongues: The Inconvenient Voice of Tibetan-English Writers; Enrique Galván-Álvarez
PART III: GLOBALIZATION, LABOUR AND WORK
7. Post-Agreement Belfast: Labour, Work and the New Subalterns in Daragh Carville's Play This Other City; Birte Heidemann
8. Labour, Pleasure and the Sublime: The 'Work' of the Dalitbahujans; Pavan Kumar Malreddy
9. Driving Pinky Madam (and Murdering Mr Ashok): Social Justice and Domestic Service in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger; Alex Tickell
10. Circuits of Power, Labour and Desire: The Case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Maria-Belén Ordóñez
PART IV: GLOBALIZATION, RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP
11. Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Studies Offer Human Rights a Revised Agenda; Diana Brydon
12. Human Rights, Security, and Global Political Hinduism; Arun Kumar Chaudhuri
13. Reading the Riots: Precarity, Racial Injustice and Rights in the Novels of Alex Wheatle; Ole Birk Laursen
14. Discoursing on Slums: Representing the Cosmopolitan Subaltern; Janet Wilson
Index